Baby's Got Back

I've been waiting weeks to use that as a title for one of my blogs but I just haven't been able to capture the moment on film yet, so lets see if I can do the moment justice in print.

So, after many months of diaper research Annie finally came up with something as eco-groovy and karmic-friendly as is possible which, when it comes to soakin up poop, its a pretty toxic affair no matter how you step in it. To borrow another Raising Arizona quote, "there's whats right and there's what right, and never the twain shall meet", the point being that this little essay will make just about as much sense as that. On one hand you've got to consider the diaper materials, the most earth friendly being the most organic and natural, free range and the most humanly killed fur as possible, while the evilest are those plasticy, throw-away kind. Then there is the disposability factor as the more artificial the diaper the more waste and the more toxic it is during decomposition. The furry kind of diapers are reusable, but they take up a fair bit of water and detergents as well as a pretty big chunk of time to do all that washing and folding. If Annie is all for it then so am I, even if there were animals harmed during the testing of these products.

But what I'm getting at here is not to sway you one way or the other on the argument, its that the multiple layers of diaper material make my babies bum look as big as Oprah's pre-weight watchers, and I don't mean proportionally. When the boy is sporting a full 3-layers of diaper he looks wider than he does long, and its actually pretty darn cute. I'll keep working on finding an angle that works and I'll be sure to share the image with you. After all, if a frog bump its ass a hoppin you should see Kians.

Also, we're told that Kian might be a boy genius because he's already said his first word and repeats it multiple times a day. That word is "hi", but we say that too him all the time and are sure he's repeating it. Annie and I are betting on which he'll say first, mommy or daddy and we're working him hard, but the books all say that universally the most used first words by babies everywhere is "ma", which makes me wonder what came first: did the sound "ma" get put into the word for mother in many languages because thats what babies first say, or do babies say "ma" first because its their mommy?